Except in a few rare situations, the only way you're going to have a popular forum is if you have a website with lots of high-quality content on it that gets lots of traffic. People aren't just going to sign up to a forum and start chatting with strangers without any incentive to do so, and the abil...

It seems enormously unlikely --- for all the reasons outlined above --- that Oracle will mess with MySQL in a detrimental fashion. Even if they were to do that, all (or at least the vast majority; I'm not exactly sure) of MySQL in its current state is open source, so it would be more than possible f...

I need to meet my supervisor to check this, but I hopefully should be doing my final year Compsci dissertation on CAPTCHA security, with an aim to discover how a system with little variation and very wide use (such as the phpBB one) can be reasonably secured without compramising usability too much. ...

I'd like to thank whoever necro'd this for confusing me massively. Having just read the topic title, I was generating timestamps for a month ago so I could test a script I was working on. They all started with the aforementioned '12', so I spent a fair few minutes swearing at PHP / my Maths skills b...

I would never use a shoutbox or gallery on my forum - they would be unnecessary bloat for the vast majority, and would take valuable developer time away from the features which are actually useful to everyone running a forum.

I think you should repeat yourself a few more times, thus ensuring everyone will agree and the developers will immediately change this functionality in phpBB (despite the fact it is in place for a very good reason).

I know it won't be changed back. As long as I am provided with 'fixes' to make things on my board work the way I think they should work (and the way the majority of the internet expects them to work), I'll be a happy bunny. Is that too much to ask? You've asserted over and over that the majority of...

Definitely causing problems for me. I've done about six shifts at work this summer (I'm a student so only part time work luckily) - I work at a private hospital, and everyone (companies and individuals) has been cancelling their health insurance to save cash. On the upside, I'm applying for a NHS jo...

You need it enabled only if your website is hosted in the US, and contains content that could be considered to be targeted at under-13s. I don't have it enabled on my forum which is hosted in the US, since the target audience is clearly adult.